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...Crimson battled back in the third set, going on an 8-4 run with the help of a kill from Kuld. Harvard held the lead temporarily, but the team lost momentum when it miscommunicated on a play. Co-captain Gil Weintraub set the ball for a spike, but nobody was there to hit it, as the players watched the ball fall to the ground...
...League has four top twenty teams,” coach Lisa Miller said before the season. “It’s a tough schedule, but it’s doable. In my mind, of the games you play, a third are always winnable games, a third are fifty-fifty games, and a third are reach games. And then you try to win your conference to get into the tournament. I’m ready for a change, and I’m optimistic and I’m realistic about the timing of things and I think...
...House. Within a year, we'd fix this country," says McKelvey, who attended Tea Party meetings before being inspired by Glenn Beck's 9.12 project and deciding to mount a bid. Tall and brusque, with a silver goatee and a penchant for talking about himself in the third person, McKelvey won the unofficial straw poll with 28% of the vote after making one of the bluntest pitches of the evening: "Jim McKelvey is not going to hold his nose and vote for the lesser of two evils again." (See pictures of Tea Party protesters...
...getting involved in the political process, they may realize that Goal No. 1 is unseating Perriello, and nominating as conservative a person as possible is No. 2." The fervor could end up hurting them, Wood adds, if one of the Tea Party hopefuls decides to run as a third-party candidate. Some handicappers have suggested the race could follow the same trajectory as the special election in New York's 23rd Congressional District, where conservative leaders embraced a third-party candidate instead of a more moderate Republican, allowing a Democrat to capture the contest...
...There aren't any third wave options when you're at the mall or the Exit 17 service plaza or your office or ... almost anywhere. In fact, the most obvious thing about Starbucks is its omnipresence. Intelligentsia sells via mail order. Counter Culture has stores, and even training centers, in Asheville, Charlotte and Durham, N.C.; Atlanta; New York City; and Washington, D.C. But there's just no way any farm-to-cup roaster can open up 60 stores, let alone 16,000-plus like Starbucks. But every town can have a café that, if it doesn...